Welcome TGM! Whenever you're ready to write up an SCP, make your sandbox. This is what you'll use to draft ALL of your ideas in the future (meaning just reuse the same page over and over again). Don't feel pressured into creating an article right away, lurk for a while to get a feel for the site (especially look at the discussion threads for what works and what doesn't). Whenever you want criticism, make a post in the forum or drop by #site19.

The easiest way for me to get to chat (without downloading) was to use [www.mibbit.com this chat website.] Register with it, click the bar at the top and scroll down to "SyrINC," type in an appropriate nickname and join a placeholder room (like #Watch). Once there, type in "/msg nickserv register [PASSWORD] [EMAIL]". Of course, substitute the brackets with a suitable password and email, and follow the instructions you get in the email. For then on, once you get to the placeholder room step, you will just type in "/msg nickserv identify [PASSWORD]". After that, you type in "/join #site19" and you're there.